. >> reporter: the classified briefing took place at trump tower. the nation's top intelligence officials, there to explain in detail why they're convinced russia tried everything possible to influence the november election in favor of trump. a declassified version of the report released later in the day read, we assess russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the u.s. presidential election. the goal? to help president-elect trump's election chances by possible by discrediting secretary clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him. george stephanopoulos discussed the matter with president obama. >> bottom line, this time, vladimir putin got what he wanted. >> well, look, i think that what is true is that the russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. i'll be honest with you, george, a lot of the things that i have concern about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seem to have more confidence in vladimir put